Events

Chamber Events

February 2018

Woking Chamber Monthly Networking

Friday 23rd February 2018

12.00 noon start

Venue: New Victoria Theatre, Peacocks, Woking. 1st floor bar area

This meeting is sponsored by Woking Loyalty, Woking's new loyalty card scheme. Find out more while enjoying our friendly, professional networking meeting. Enjoy the excellent buffet provided by Truffles and have a drink at the cash bar.

AGM

Tuesday 20th March 2018

6.00pm for 6.30pm prompt start

Venue: WWF Theatre, Brewery Road Woking

Don't miss the Chamber's Annual General Meeting at the excellent WWF Theatre. Get up to date with the latest news in the Chamber world, enjoy the networking and hear our special guest speaker, Ray Morgan, Chief Executive,Woking Borough Council. Welcome by The Mayor of Woking. This is a FREE event

Monthly Networking at the Theatre

Friday 20th April 2018

12 noon start

Venue: New Victoria Theatre, Peacocks, Woking. 1st Floor Bar Area

Don't miss our popular monthly networking event at the New Victoria Theatre. It takes place on the 1st floor bar area and includes an excellent finger buffet provided by our member Truffle. There is a cash bar and the networking is great.This meeting is kindly sponsored by our old friends Menzies.

Cost for members paying online is £12.50 + Vat, on the door its £15.+ Vat

Non-members are very welcome and the cost for them is £20 + Vat online or at the door.

May 2018

Monthly Networking at the Theatre

Friday 18th May 2018

12 noon start

Venue: New Victoria Theatre, Peacocks, Woking. 1st Floor Bar Area

Woking Chamber's Monthly networking event is probably the longest running and most popular networking event in Surrey with 40 to 50 local business owners, directors and managers regularly attending.The month's event is being sponsored by employment law firm Springhouse Solicitors.

Monthly Networking and New Members Event

Friday 15th June 2018

12 noon start

Venue: New Victoria Theatre, Peacocks, Woking. 1st Floor Bar Area

June sees the return of our popular New Members Event where recently signed up new members have the opportunity to exhibit free at the monthly networking event and introduce themselves to the members.Great opportunity for a member to sponsor this event.

While many questions still need to be answered by the Government before we are completely clear, the purpose of this event is to bring you up to speed as much as possible as it stands today.

To help us do this we are bringing together a panel of experts on 22 February 2018, to share their particular perspective on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). All four panelists will share their latest information and welcome questions from the floor.

What is GDPR?

From 25 May 2018, individuals will have the right to have their personal data erased, otherwise known as 'the right to be forgotten', in compliance with GDPR.
What does this mean for business?
In what circumstances will that right apply?
Will there be legitimate reasons not to comply?
What if explicit consent to process the data has been given?
Should third party organisations be informed of the deletion?

Currently, the maximum fines being issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) are £500,000. On 25 May 2018, this will increase to a maximum of £18 million or 4% of your global annual turnover.

Personal data is one of your businesses most valuable assets. Your database is your lifeline to the success of your business and the key to on-going profitability.

Getting this right protects the reputation of your business; avoids punitive fines; engenders trust and ensures that you don’t lose out to your competition.

Monday 5th March 2018

From 10:00, to 11:30

Venue: Online webinar

Are you being pulled in multiple directions, with numerous demands on your time, effort and focus? Do you try to focus on one thing, but constantly feel the pull of everything else you need to do, get done, or be?

We tend to forget how many roles we perform in our lives, and getting the right balance between them can feel overwhelming. Then add the emotions that are attached to each one, and you can find yourself feeling permanently guilty - and not getting much of anything done!
This workshop is about exploring those roles that we play, how we think we are handling it right now and how we could make it work better. With the right balance, you can concentrate on each activity, relationship or connection, being really present in that moment, achieving more and feeling more of an accomplishment at the end of the day.

Thursday 15th March 2018

From 10:00, to 11:30

Venue: Woking

Do you work with freelancers or use ‘virtual’ services to run your business? Have you thought about how these people could affect your brand? If someone delivers work late to you – how does that affect your clients and what they think of you and your company? If someone who is not an employee represents your business to your clients directly – how concerned are you about how they behave, communicate and deliver services on your behalf? Join me to find out more about how the people you work with affect your brand and what you can do to protect it.

If you work with freelancers or use ‘virtual’ services to run your business this seminar is for you. How do the people you work with – freelancers, self-employed or people providing virtual or non-virtual services to you - affect your brand? If someone delivers work late to you – how does that affect your clients and what they think of you and your company? If a freelancer represents your business to a client directly – how concerned are you about how they behave, communicate and deliver services on your behalf? Join me to find out more about how the people you work with affect your brand and what you can do to protect it. In this seminar you will learn:
Why thinking about ‘fit’ is just as important for the reputation of your brand if your ‘team’ includes freelancers, self-employed people or people from companies who provide virtual or non-virtual services to you.
Why thinking about how you set expectations with your ‘team’ in a consistent manner can make the difference between good results and those tricky situations where it hasn’t worked out how you hoped, but because your team are not employees, it’s hard to do much about it. That matters because if it hasn’t worked out how you hoped – your brand may have been damaged along the way.
Why thinking about how you can improve the way you work together building on past experience can ensure your brand’s reputation stays intact, and your business can flourish.
The overall benefit of attending for you is becoming fully aware of the impact the people you work with can have on your business – even when they’re not employees. You can then decide which of the tips I share will help you protect the reputation of your business best.

Wednesday 13th June 2018

From 08:30, to 15:00

Venue: Army Aldershot Rugby Stadium

Woking Rotary Club is looking for individual Chamber members to help our Rotary members manage the on-site activities at Rotary Kids Out which is a fun day where about 900 disadvantaged and disabled children are entertained for the day.

Rotary Kids Out is run by a group of local Rotary clubs each year and provides loads of entertainment including rides, bouncy slides, railway trains, animal farm and much more.

Woking Rotary Club manages the activities on part of the site. We are looking for volunteers from the Chamber to help us on the day. It is a very rewarding experience to see the fun that these children have.

The children come with their own carers who look after them, and we provide the fun.

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